A federal judge in Texas has denied the Sierra Club’s request to stop construction of the $2.3 billion, 429-mile Permian Highway pipeline that would carry natural gas from the Permian Basin shale region in west Texas through the state’s scenic Hill Country to the Gulf of Mexico.
“Unfortunately, granting an injunction at this stage of the pipeline’s completion would not unring the bell,” Austin-based district court Judge Robert Pitman said Aug. 28, noting that in seeking a temporary restraining order, the environmental group failed to establish a definitive threat of future harm.